Urgent Notice to All Club Secretaries

Please be aware that unless you have correctly completed and returned your club re-affiliation paperwork for 2016, your club will not be insured. We are unable to make any exceptions to this ruling as our underwriters will not accept claims made if the correct paperwork has not been submitted and received at our NSRA offices.

Please note that if you have already submitted your renewal paperwork, your club will be covered by our insurance, providing this is complete and correct. Any slight delay you may experience in receiving confirmation of your renewal is due to the Christmas / New Year break and the resulting volume of work we have to process.

To avoid unnecessary telephone calls and if you have yet to send in your renewal paperwork, please refer to the letter sent to you in October 2015, detailing the relevant forms for completion, the information required and the club renewal fee payable for 2016.

Thank you in advance for your co-operation and understanding during what is for us a very busy time of the year.

If you need another copy of the forms, all 2016 membership forms can be downloaded below:

Internationals

Home Country Internationals

Home Country International Matches are held at all national meetings organised by the NSRA. They may be entered by one team representing any of the seven Home Countries recognised under NSRA Rules – England, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The relevant Home Country Union or Association will be responsible for entering and selecting its team.

When present at a meeting, overseas teams are allowed to shoot alongside for honours only, but are not eligible to win the match trophy or medals.

To represent one of the Home Countries, a shooter, Team Captain and Adjutant or Secretary must be qualified in accordance with NSRA Rules and Regulations, Rule 3.2. The Home Countries may require additional qualification criteria for selection to be met, such as individual membership of the Union.

Medals are awarded to the members of winning teams, including the Captain and Adjutant or Secretary. For many years no winners medals were awarded, but instead the NSRA provided every team member and official with a medal or badge emblematic of their country and/or date bar as a memento of their participation in the match. Responsibility for the issue of any representative medals or badges now rests with the relevant Home Country Union. Blazer badges for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are available for purchase from NSRA Competitions Dept. by shooters who have represented those countries.

Bisley Rifle Meeting

Prone Match

Teams of 10 for the Bovril Challenge Shield.

Women’s Prone Match

Teams of 5 for the Mrs A.B. Culf Challenge Cup.

Junior Prone Match

Teams of 3 for the ESSU Trophy. Juniors must be aged under 21 on 31 December of the year of shooting.

The above three matches are shot squadded over a modified Dewar course. They are shot at the same time and a competitor selected for two or all three matches will shoot them concurrently.

Three Positions (3x40) Match

Teams of 3. Shot concurrently with the British Three Positions Championship.

Women’s Three Positions (3x20) Match

Teams of 3. Shot concurrently with the British 3x20 Championship.

Scottish Rifle Meeting

Prone Match

Teams of 10 for the Sir Ian Hamilton Cup.

Women’s Prone Match

Teams of 5 for the Mappin Challenge Shield.

Junior Prone Match

Teams of 3 for the Lindsay Allan Quaich. Juniors must be aged under 21 on 31 December of the year of shooting.

These matches are organised on the same basis as the equivalent matches at the Bisley Rifle Meeting.

British 50m Rifle Championships

Men's Three Positions (3x40) Match

Teams of 3 for the N Trophy.

Women’s Three Positions (3x20) Match

Teams of 3 for the Edith Summerskill Trophy.

Men's Prone Match

Teams of 3.

Women's Prone Match

Teams of 3.

The matches are shot concurrently with the appropriate individual Championship competitions.

Bisley Pistol Meeting

International Match

Team of 4 for the Hunter Trophy. Shot concurrently with the first stage of the British Open Short Range Pistol Championship (the Allies).

Women’s Match

Teams of 2. Score taken from the first 40 shots of the second competition of the 10 metre Air Pistol Aggregate.

Airgun Meeting

International Match

Teams of 3 for the Colonial Trophy (rifle) and the ESSU Trophy (pistol). 60 shots per team member.

Women’s Match

Teams of 3 for the McQueen Trophy (rifle) and the F.J. Tucknott Trophy (pistol). 40 shots per team member.

Junior Match

Teams of 3. 60 shots per team member. Juniors may be of either sex and must be aged under 21 on 31 December of the year of shooting.

The matches are shot concurrently with the British Confined Championship. Women and junior women may be selected for the International Match, in which case they, and any junior women selected for the Junior Match, will be required to fire an additional 20 shots after completion of her British Championship course of 40 shots.